Transmission on death-sole proprietor

(1) If a sole proprietor dies, his personal representative, on application to the Registrar in the prescribed form and on production to him of the grant, shall be entitled to be registered by transmission as proprietor in the place of the deceased with the addition after his name of the words “as executor of the will of........... deceased” or “as administrator of the estate of..................deceased”, as the case may be. (2) Upon production of a grant the Registrar may, without requiring the personal representative to be registered, register by (a) any transfer by the personal representative; or (b) any surrender of a lease or discharge of a charge by the personal representative. (3) In this section, “grant” means the grant of probate of the will or the grant of letters of administration of the estate of the deceased proprietor. 79